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Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the ...
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
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Man behind the mask: Bruce Lazaruk begins 50th season as baseball umpire
Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...
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Department of Art & Design to host 2025 Distinguished Alumni Tripp Gibson on April 11
Gibson was recently named one of six recipients of the 2025 Murray State University Alumni Association’s Distinguished ...
What the data from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test says about baseball’s future
Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...
Opposing teams unite to rally around baseball umpire with cancer
In sports, sometimes there are things that are bigger than the game, as was the case between two high school baseball teams.
York baseball player should not have been ejected for excessive pine tar on bat
The ejection could automatically have prohibited third baseman Trevor Evans from playing in York’s subsequent game Monday at ...
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The automated strike zone appeal went well in spring training, according to umpire Chris Conroy
Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...